Sentence examples for invasion leaving from inspiring English sources

Many of the Americans were moved from bases in central Iraq, the first time United States troops had been committed to combat in the southernmost area of the country since British troops took control of the area after the 2003 invasion, leaving central and northern Iraq to the much larger American force.

This weed is the killer weed, the nearly indestructible weed, The Weed From Another Continent — a weed that evokes those old science-fiction movies in which clueless citizens ignore reports of an alien invasion, leaving the heroes to rail in frustration: The fools! Don't they understand?

George Lordos is one of the Greek-Cypriots involved in the initiative who had to flee Varosha during the invasion, leaving behind a home and family business.

Within three days, he left Sparta and returned to Macedon to deal with a Dardanii invasion, leaving a garrison in Acrocorinth and Orchomenos.

In August, Schuyler left to meet with representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy in order to keep them neutral during the invasion, leaving Montgomery in command of the forces at Fort Ticonderoga.

But unlike Western media companies who generally have their correspondents based in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros were already in Gaza before Israel's invasion, leaving them with the huge responsibility of providing virtually exclusive reporting -- and they've delivered.

That invasion left Gaza in ruins.

The invasion left residents near the university fearful at a time when many would be preparing for graduation.

That attack, the worst against Iraqi Christians since the American invasion, left more than 50 people dead.

The 1974 invasion left the island's Turkish Cypriot minority in control of about 40 percent of the territory.

Affleck's character loses everything of meaning in his life when a brutal home invasion leaves his family dead and two bullets lodged in his head.